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Streptococcus bovis bacteremia: unusual complications
P R Genta1, L Carneiro, E N Genta
1Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital São Joaquim, Real e Benemérita Sociedade Portuguesa de Beneficência, and the University of São Paulo School of Medicine, Brazil.
Southern Medical Journal
|December 16, 1998
Abstract:
Streptococcus bovis bacteremia is known to be related to neoplastic lesions of the colon. We describe a patient with several complications of S bovis bacteremia and adenocarcinoma of the colon--endocarditis, spondylodiskitis, and splenic abscess. We believe this is the eighth known case of endocarditis and diskitis caused by S bovis and the third case of endocarditis and splenic abscess by S bovis in a patient with adenocarcinoma of the colon.